NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Scandalous gossip wild parties and forbidden love—the Greek tale
of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated Eisner
Award-winning Lore Olympus including a brand new bonus short story! “You have no authority
here.” Revelations rock Olympus as Persephone’s trial ends threatening to throw the gods
into a new war. Though Persephone and Hades become closer than ever after she opens up to him
about all she has endured their peace is shattered when another truth is revealed: Apollo is
Zeus’s son. The announcement shocks the pantheon and the king of the gods realizes that the
would-be usurper wants Persephone’s power to take the throne. Zeus banishes Persephone to the
Mortal Realm and out of fear cuts it off entirely from the rest of the gods. This decree
succeeds in undercutting Apollo’s plan but also inadvertently begins a decade-long divine cold
war when Hades strikes back by shuttering the Underworld. With the gods scattered and weakened
Kronos uses the ensuing bedlam to finally escape his imprisonment and begin staging his own
coup. Persephone has only one choice when she discovers all the realms on the verge of
collapse: Descend into the Underworld to try to defeat the power-hungry Titan claim her
rightful place as queen and reunite with her one true love. This edition of Smythe’s original
Eisner Award–winning webcomic Lore Olympus features a brand-new exclusive short story from
creator Rachel Smythe and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive
and romantic graphic novel. This volume collects episodes 180–206 of the #1 WEBTOON comic
Lore Olympus .
